Absolute mystery.

The level of online radicalisation going on is far beyond what most people realise.

Just saw a guy in Edinburgh with a typical X bio on his shirt - 'IF THIS FLAG OFFENDS YOU I'LL HELP YOU PACK' under a Union Jack. I think this is what theorists mean by the post-digital.

There's also a piece I've written to go with this. You can read it for free, here: www.tom-cox.com/what-will-li...

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Lots of great points in this. This assessment of radical/hard/populist/far right chimes with my article on ARC. Regressive neoliberalism - a smaller state that only serves the interests of the in-group. Failed regressive ideas repackaged as radical thinking. geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...

If Reform won it would be an opportunity for Marshall to kill the BBC. He sees it through the lens of conspiracy theorists who were radicalised during the pandemic - as state propaganda. There is nothing the BBC can do to appease positions that aren’t reality based.

What are the chances Panorama will do a similar investigation into Paul Marshall’s network? www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Excellent deep dive into the mess the BBC is in: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Wondering how this 43% can look back on the last 15 years and think we need more austerity. Are these people who don’t use public services?

The owners of the UK’s pro fossil fuel, anti immigrant and anti trans propaganda channel are based in the UAE. It’s broadcasting to the world that Britain is a hell hole that can only be saved by Reform. Yet, it’s licensed to broadcast as a news channel the equivalent of the BBC.

A lot of other high profile X accounts have joined in this attack on a member of the public who merely said filling out all the PIP forms was so difficult only people with genuine cause would persevere. This is why the #BBCQT production team shouldn’t book bad faith actors. They have a duty of care.

This is indistinguishable from the C19th racism used to justify colonialism. What does ‘visibly inferior’ mean?For ‘liberal ruling class’ see Lisa Nandy and various Northerners in the QT audience selected to represent a cross section of the public.

Apart from a few angry posts on here, why will this be cost free? Where’s the stigma gone? Was it ever a genuine one? Have social norms or the rules changed? This is far from the first time he’s written or said something like this and he’ll be on the BBC again soon.

Every single Reform policy is stupid, unworkable & would be counterproductive. In government they would’ve given everyone Ivermectin rather than investing in vaccines. They don’t believe/understand climate science. Yet, for some reason they are treated as potential stewards of the national interest.

Tells us everything that’s wrong with uk national media, which privileges bullshit debates over establishing facts on the ground, and shows GBNews is nothing but a propaganda channel.

Watkins’s Culloden is also an incredible film: youtu.be/-1TZq6DfKKA

Fantastic, erudite, and provocative essay. Recommended for anyone interested literacy, AI, and education and the future of humanity: "For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education".

A woman on BBCQT challenged Goodwin’s narrative that people on PIP are scamming hard working Brits by claiming for trivial mental illnesses. After saying live he couldn’t claim to know her circumstances he & his fellow travellers are monstering her on X, claiming she’s a faker. Just despicable.

My family still lives with the consequences of my grandad’s battlefield ptsd that he was never treated for or able to process. He was only able to talk about the horrors that caused it on his deathbed. Yet, I remember growing-up with completely unrealistic war adventure movies and Action Man.

The Observer article really underestimates what Grokipedia represents within the current political climate. This entry implies racist pseudoscience is scientifically valid. It’s another threshold crossed on a disturbing trajectory.

I think Colloden is one of the all time great war films. The class analysis & state of extras’ teeth and skin, indicative of public health standards at the time, lends it a unique authenticity like we are really watching a documentary. youtu.be/-1TZq6DfKKA?...

Fantastic, erudite, and provocative essay. Recommended for anyone interested literacy, AI, and education and the future of humanity: "For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education".

Activist is a the hard right’s pejorative term for academics it seeks to discredit without engaging with the empirical facts. Wonder if the programme makers know this.

Just checked Grokipedia and it does describe Shaheen as an activist and Goodwin as an academic. The BBC is behaving exactly as an AI specifically designed to have a right-wing bias.

Activist is a the hard right’s pejorative term for academics it seeks to discredit without engaging with the empirical facts. Wonder if the programme makers know this.

Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.

Fantastic series. Set design, performances and script 🧑‍🍳💋.

Because it’s failed to even attempt to make the case for immigration the Labour Govt. is going to fail to deliver growth, increase income tax, deepen the crisis in social care and universities, alienate its base and still fail to win over any Reform voters.

The Met Police appealing, in vain, to people’s better nature not to exploit a horrific video of a man being murdered.

We have Copilot built into everything at work making us involuntary complicit is this choice to put AI market expansion before environmental targets. At scale we’re all having our ability to shape the future incrementally removed by American billionaires.

Goodwin et al. misrepresenting C4 study leading their audiences to believe 51% of adverts are non-white (when in reality they featured a non-white person). They claim to want better integration but don’t like seeing it modelled in adverts.

Did any sci-fi writers predict an unstable and capricious multibillionaire owing the means of production in a knowledge based economy to promote white suprematist propaganda?

It’s all white ‘identity politics’. There’s even talk of ‘waking-up’ to white discrimination, oppression and erasure. Class is a cultural category or another synonym for white. Getting more ‘conservatives’ into the academy is their affirmative action.

Unsurprisingly, Grokopedia appears to be a pseudoscientific knowledge system for white suprematists. Here’s its entry for Charles Murray.

Despite a blue tick, views <1% of followers.

Remembering the wall-to-wall coverage when, off his mic, Gordon Brown called someone who expressed bigotry a bigot.

Good example of the motte-and-bailey strategy that racists everywhere use when caught out.

On the left a Silicon Valley intellectual (ex Open AI and Deep Mind) struggling to diagnose what’s wrong and on the right what won’t be on his curriculum.

Debate on the reality of climate change. In whose interest is such a debate needed? GBNews’s viewers or its UAE based owners?

Also, shows Brexit is politically toxic and begging to be weaponised.

Listen to what these people from Caerphilly say about Farage, Brexit and Reform. They see through the grift. Plaid won because its candidate presented the opposite to Reform - honesty and genuine regard for the community.

Reform propaganda channel and all round ignorance engine doing its job. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

I’m glad my home town, where I was born in the Miners Hospital, is not going to be forever associated with bigotry and ignorance because it elected Wales’s first Reform MS. Can’t help thinking most of the British media is disappointed though.

Brilliant articulation. R/w attacks on universities as poor value for money, producing unemployable activists, wasting tax payers’ money on woke research, suppressing free speech all plays into this. No one, even those responsible for them, is defending public universities as social infrastructure.

Under resourced, undermined and under attack public institutions such as universities and the BBC v Paul Marshall, Elon Musk et al. with their unlimited funds ‘flooding the zone the zone with shit’ as Bannon put it.

So true. Reactionary centrists have never shown any interest in why trans people might be anxious or angry about people questioning their existence.

He’d also been to the Battle of Ideas event in Westminster (so on the right train) during which a succession of speakers on a panel chaired by someone who works for Victor Orban would’ve denounced multiculturalism as a disease inflicted on ‘the people’ by ‘elites’.

Curtis Yarvin, David Starkey, and Toby Young all speaking at Oxford this week. Orr now advising Farage invited the author of the Bell Curve to Cambridge. Endorsing race science still isn’t a barrier to entry into the British establishment, continuing a 200 year old tradition.

On the left the growing number of tools to automate many of the core functions teachers are trained to execute and require professional judgement - including planning a sequence of lessons. On the right, the potential consequences of these tools: